Ready for battle... A heavily armed riot squad

Ready for battle... A heavily armed riot squad member outside the Phola Park squatter camp takes cover as sporadic gunfire rings out. Thokoza is a township south of Johannesburg, South Africa at the location of the now defunct Palmietfontein Airport. During the early 1990s Thokoza was the middle of a civil war between the supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), rival party of the African National Congress (ANC)

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Award-winning Bang-bang Defunct Gunfire Heavily Ilford Inkatha Oosterbroek Phola Photojournalist Protests Riot Rival Sporadic Squad Squatter Supporters Thokoza Township Zulus

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